Admitting that he was surprised that the show beat out fellow nominees Absolutely Fabulous, Benidorm and The Big Bang Theory, O’Carroll also added that he often doesn’t know what fans are on about when they repeat the comedy programme's lines back at him.

"You do get people coming up and going, ‘That's nice’. Or saying a line and thinking that you'll get it.

“I forget most of the lines that I write once we've done the show, I can't remember them. So people come up and go, 'Christmas pudding!' and I go, 'Ha! Yeah! What the f**k was that?'

“It's not too much as it used to be, comedians having catchphrases, because [people] tweet them and then it goes viral, and then two days later everybody's bored with it.”